Originally published in 1974, this volume presents viable alternatives to traditional attitudes and practices in environmental design and education. It contains 29 selections that reflect the thought and actions of leaders from many diverse disciplines and professions. Architects, landscape architects, urban planners, teachers and administrators, psychologists and social theorists address themselves to controversial and important issues facing our post-industrial society. The range of subjects explored in the volume is far-reaching:
- Environmental education in which the art of planning and designing itself becomes the curriculum
- Advocacy planning and community participation in both educational and design decision making
- Alternative educational institutions, ranging from community-centered schools and mobile schools to non-school learning networks that distribute the learning activity throughout the fabric of the city and the lifetime of the learner
- New developments in systematic design methods and evaluation research that promise to make the design process more public and responsive to the user-client
Originally published in 1974, this volume presents viable alternatives to traditional attitudes and practices in environmental design and education. It contains 29 selections that reflect the thought and actions of leaders from many diverse disciplines and professions.
Part 1: Environmental Awareness: Educating for Design
1. The Need for
Environmental Education Mark Terry
2. Space Place Stanley Madeja
3. Planning
for Change: Neighbourhood Design and Urban Politics in the Public Schools
Richard Hatch
4. The City Building Educational Program: A Decision-Making
Approach to Education Doreen Nelson
5. Architecture: A Course of Study for
High School Student Robert Lloyd
6. A Room Planned by Children Luther W.
Pfluger and Jessie M. ZolaPart 2: Environmental Action: Designing for
Education. Alternative Schools Gary J. Coates
1. Accommodating the Education
Revolution John Beynon
2. Why/How to Build School Buildings Gian Carlo de
Carlo
3. Children, Schools and Utopias George von Hilsheimer
4. The Hard-Soft
School Anthony Barton
5. Interview with Topper Carew (excerpted and arranged)
6. MOBOC: A Mobile Learning Environment Charles W. Rusch
7. Liberated Zone:
An Evolving Learning Space Robert Goodman
8. An Alternative Strategy for
Planning an Alternative School Henry Sanoff and George Barbour
9. Innovation
in the Philadelphia School System Lawrence Goldfarb, Peter Brown and Thomas
Gallagher Outdoor Play-Learning Environments Gary J. Coates
10. Adventure
Playgrounds Clare C. Cooper
11. The Political Collapse of a Playground Mayer
Spivack
11. The Theory of Loose Parts Simon Nicholson
12. Open Space Learning
Place Robin Moore The City as an Open Learning Environment
13. Freeing
Educational Resources Everett Reimer
14. Learning in the City Leonard B.
Finkelstein and Lisa W. Strick
15. Children in Transit: The Open City Project
Jim Zien
16. The Educative City Michael Southworth and Susan Southworth
17.
Information Ecology and the Design of Learning Environments Richard Allen
ChasePart 3: Environmental Evaluation
1. Play: Theory and Research Michael J.
Ellis
2. Planning Environments for Young Children: Physical Space Sybil
Kritchevsky, Elizabeth Prescott and Lee Walling
3. Designing Play
Environments for Children George L. Peterson, Robert L. Bishop and Richard M.
Michaels
4. Childrens Play: Design Approaches and Theoretical Issues Asher
Derman
5. The Child in the Physical Environment: A Design Problem Anne-Marie
Pollowy.
Professor of Architecture emeritus Gary J. Coates has long been recognized nationally and internationally as a leading voice in the movement to create socially, technologically and ecologically sustainable buildings, towns, cities and bioregions.
Coates contributions have been recognized with numerous awards. At Kansas State University, where he taught for 45 years, Coates was selected as the inaugural Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Faculty Chair. He has received national awards from the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) for his innovative courses on sustainable and regenerative design. Coates was chosen as an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture for a lifetime of "sustained creative achievement" through teaching, research, scholarship and service.
Professionally, Coates has consulted on town planning and architectural design projects, and collaborated with colleagues to help create a number of international professional organizations including: the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA); the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU); the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE) and; the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum (ACSF).
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